1937-12-15 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 15, 1937.

Brahms Double

Concerto

In A Minor

Todays Wireless

12.00-12.20 pan-Relay of Special Ser-

vice from St. John's Cathedral

12,30 p.m.--Songs by Webster Booth

(Tenor).

Pale Moon (Logan).

The World Is Mine To-right

(Posford).

Land Without Music-Medley

(0. Straus).

12.40 p.m.—Waltzes.

The Broken String.

The Swallow Waltz.

Russian Novelty Orchestra. Coeur Ardent..

Souvenir Fleuri

(Composer Unknown).

ZBW 355 M. 845 ke

1 pm-Local Time Signal and We

Report

1.03 pm-Orquesta. Tipica

Canaro.

Desconfiale Tango (Canaro-Pelay). Novia-Tango (Rofzano-Gorrindo).

El Que A Hierro Mata-Tango

(Canaro Pelay).

• ZEK 640 Ke's

Minor, Op. 102-

Thiband (Violin) & Casals (Cello)

The Pablo Casals Orchestra, Barcelona, cond

Page

Alexander Kipnis

And

Ewald Bohmer

BROADCAST FROM DAVENTRY

TRANSMISSION 1

ESG 17:79 Mc% 16

GSD 175 ART (25

GSB 9.51 ne/s (33555- 118 GMT

Alfred

GS0 15.12

Cortot.

7.35 pin-Closing local Sto Quota tions & Hong Kong Exchange Ma ket Report

8.35 a m. - Biz

Walk To

talk by LE Professor of ford

1.13 pm-Jack Hylton & His Orches-7.40 pan Studi

(The Ho Brothers).

1.30 pm-Reuter & Rugby Press; Lo-8 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather 830 am. From the

cal Weather Report and Announce- ments.

Variety.

Nello Romani & His Orch.149 pm Donauwellen, Waltz (Ivanovici). [2.15 pm-Close down. The Last Waltz (0. Strauss).

Edith Lorand Orchestra. T

BRIDGE NOTES

4-7 pm-Chinese Programme.

Brahms Double Concerto In A

By ELY CULBERTSON

Defense De Luxe

course,

Report and Announcements. 8.03-pm-Alexander Kipnis (Bass) &

Ewald Bohmer (Baritone).

Die Meistersinger vom Nurnberg"

(Wagner)

Affairs

Chichele Law Ox-

ajesty guns at

George VISA the Tower of London, and a descrip- tion of the scene, broadcast from the Tower of London.-

9.35 am-The News & Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 9.15 8.m 355 am-Variety 10-25 am-Close dow

TRANSMISSION 2

Frequencies

The Feast of John, Midsomer

Day

Kronis Der Rosenkavaller (R. Strauss).

Herr Karalier....Kipnis with E.

Ruzivzka (Soprano). "The Magic Flute' (Mozart).

A Fowler bold in me you see;"

Ewald Bohmer (Baritone). &15 pm-London Relay World A

fairs..

Music in the 10.4

8.30 p.m.-London Relay.

Morning

9 pm-Spanish Music

Spanish Dance →→

No 1 Oriental (Granados). No-2-Andeloase (Granados).

GST 21.53 Mc/s (13.93 m.) GSH 2147 Mc/s. (1397 m.) GSG 17479 Mcfs (16.86 m.) GSO 1518 Mc/s (19.76 m.)

Big Ben Beethoven String

The Goddess Fortune' A drama of back-stage life. 1150 -Luigi Voself and his Hun-

garian Orchestra. -

New Light Symphony Orchestral 1275 p.m-World Affairs.

Cond: Eugene Goossens

12.30 pm-Music in the Morning" The Lover and the Nightingale (Gra-11 pm--Sea Shanties

nados). Eileen Joyce (Piano).1.30 p.m.--The News & Announcements. Spanish Dance, Op. 51, No. 5 (Pop-Greenwich Time Signal at 145 p.m.

per)....Casals (Cello) with Piano 1.55 p.m.-Close down accomp. by Nicolai Mednikoff.

If contract were played with allred the dummy before he followed 52 cards exposed, there would be less suit. The prospect of defeating the wailing

those hand was none too good, he saw and moaning from players who claim that they never two spades and one diamond ap can guess. a finesse. But this would pearing to be the defenders only be a slight boon indeed because the tricks. game would die out in a month. Not that I wish to imply that the fas- There was a chance, of cination of contract lies in "guesses" that South held three diamonds to Far from it! Guessing the location the king, in which case East's dia- of an honour means little, or no-mond quota would be raised a trick. thing, in terms of skill. If the fol-If this condition existed, well and lowing hand, for instance, were good. But, meanwhile, East saw played at double dummy (with all a definite hope for defeating the hands exposed), how could East put contract even if declarer had only up the brilliant defence that he ac-the king and one diamond. (West 9.30 tually did?

East, dealer.

Both sides vulnerable.

WEST

S.-T

NORTH

S-9 8 5

H-A K J 10 D-7 5 4 2 C-A K

H-986432

D. J 93 C.-J. 6 2

2

EAST

S—A K 3 H-Q

D-AQ 10.8 C-9 85 43

SOUTH

S-QJ 10 6 4 2

H-7 5

D-K 6

C-Q 10 7

The bidding:

2

If I Could Forget Your Eyes (San-

doval-Albeniz).

It is you (Sandaval).

TRANSMISSION 3

Frequencies-

Beniamino Gigli (Tenor). Spanish Dance No. 3 Rondalla Ara-

gonesa (Granados). Trians (Albeniz orchestrated by Ar

bas)....New Light Symphony Or-2.15 chestra Cond: Eugene Goossens. p.m.-London Relay The News. could have no more than three dia-9.50 p.m.-Joseph Szigeti (Violin).

Sonata In D Major (Handel) with monds, otherwise he would have

Nikita De Magaloff at the Plaño: 4.20 opened his fourth highest.)

10.02 pm

New Variety & Dance Re- cords. 11 pm-Close down

As preparation for his defensive coup, East carefully refrained from playing the ace of diamonds to the first trick, choosing the queenin

GSH ZLAT ¥c/s (1397 m. ese 1779 Mc/a (16.86 TL) GSF 15:14 Mc/% (19.82 m) GST (to 3.30 p.m.) 21.53 Mc/z pm-Big Ben Brass Band Con-

Palace of Varieties

The News & Announcements. wich Time Signal at 415 p.

Matters of Moment.” A talk by Edward ThompsonK..

5 p.m

chestral Music by Bach Close down.

stead. Declarer won with the king What's On At the Cinemas

and, as ninety-nine players in

hundred would, started to take out] AT THE QUEEN'S "Dr. Jekyll and banks Jr. Anthony Hope's master- trumps East captured dummy's Mr. Hyde with Fredric March and mece filmed in all detail and with out- wances - by Rozald eight with the king, and laid down Miriam Hopkins. The outstanding per-standing perf

formance of Fredic-March's career. The Colman and Madeleine Can the heart queen. Declarer had 3

parts are well acted and true in all de- presage of disaster, but the fat was tails with the original story. Worth? in the fire and there was nothing seeing again.. he could do except go on drawing

AT THE STA The Count of

trumps. On a low trump lead from Monte Cristo”. with Robert Donat dummy, East hopped up with the Alexander Dundas masterpiece faith ace, and now came the crucial play, fully reproduced

the diamond eight! East had seen

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*

AT THE MAJESTIC - “Woman of Glamour —Virginia Bruce and Mebryn Douglas make a delightful picture- their supporting cast includes Beginald Jenny, Pert Kelton, Leora Maricle and The 1 Hall, Lynn Starling and Mary C. McCall wrote the screen story from a play by Milton Herbert Gropper.

that declarer had started with six AT THE ORIENTAI “The Case Off AT THE ALHA FBRA "Cattle spades and this fact made it all the The Black Cat, with Ricardo Cortez Thief with Ken Maynard, Geneva Mit- more unlikely that he had held three and June Travis. A thrilling murder chell, Ward Bond and Sheldon Lewis.

mystery melodrama in which a cat Maynard enacts the dual role of diamonds. If two diamond tricks plays a very important part.

mysterious rider and a stupid reddler. could not be taken, there was only

Through a series of spine chiling ad- one chance to defeat the contract AT THE KING'S “The Prisoner of ventures the picture Teaches a grand and that was to find West with the Zenda", with Bonald Colman, Madeleine climax as Maynard outwits a despe

Carrol, Mary Astor and Douglas Fair-band of rustlers.. South West North nine of diamonds a heart ruff 1 diamond 1 spade Pass 4 spades (plainly called for by East's pre- Pass

Pass

vious defence) would save the day. Fate would have been decidedly North's double jump was uncon- lacking in a sense of art if it had ventional, based as it was on only placed the diamond nine in declarer's three spades to the nine, but pro- hand.

Bast

Pass

bably was the best bid available.

South, had found a vulnerable over Referring back to the opening call. With North's great strength discourse of this article, East's play in hearts and clubs, it was a safe bet would have been spoiled if the hand that South's spade suit could stand had been played at double dummy less than adequate trump support, and, as a matter of fact, if declarer The alternative bid of three hearts had been acutely aware of all safety An immediate diamond by North would have been ambigu- methods. ous in that it would convey a pic- return by declarer, after winning ture of at least five and, probably, the diamond king, would have thwarted East's defensive coup be six hearts.

fore it had even gotten under way. West never could have reg: the lead for the vital heart

West dutifully opened the nond jack, and East carefully stadi-

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